Display-table.



No. 734,645. PATENTED JULY 28, 1903.

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srncrnrcarrroiv forming part of Letters Patent no. 734,645, dated July as, 1903. Application filed December 6, 1902. Serial No. 134,165. (No model.)

To aZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES WRIGHT WINr FIELD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tipton, in the county of Tipton and State of Indiana, have, invented a new and useful Display-Table, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relatesto display devices, and has for its objects to produce a device of this character which will be simple in construction, eflicient in operation, inexpensive to manufacture, and one which is susceptible of having its form widely varied at will and of assuming a variety of positions to render it suitable for thedisplay of different classes of merchandise.

To these endsthe invention comprises, in combination with a stand or support, a table mounted therein on a horizontal pivot and adapted to rotate, said table comprising two primary stepped sections each provided with a pivoted secondary section adapted to swing away from its primary section into a stepped position.

Theinvention further comprises the details of construction and combination of parts hereinafter described.

, In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the device open. Fig. 2 is an end elevation of the same closed. Fig. 3 is a similar View, the table being turned on its pivot to bring its bottom uppermost. Fig. 4 is a similar view, the table being opened and turned to a vertical posi' tion, an obliqueposition of the same being indicated in dotted lines.- Fig. 5 is a similar view, the table being opened and turned bottorn up.

Referring to the drawings, 1 indicates the stand or support, comprising four legs connected at their lower ends by the brace-frame 2 and further connected in pairs at their upper ends by metal plates or heads 3, sustaining the horizontal pivot 4,0n which the table proper, 5, is mounted for rotation.

The table proper comprises two primary hollow box-like sections 6 and 7, secured together in anysuitable manner andprovided, respectively, each with a secondary or lidlike section 8 and 9, hinged to and adapted to fold away from the primary sections in opposite directions, as shown in Fig. 1, thus presenting four open bins stepped one above another, which may be rotated on the horizontal pivot 4 to assume various positions, as illustrated in the several figures of the drawlugs.

The end plates 3 each have formed therein a semicircular slot 10, in which a set-screw 11, attached to the end of primary section 6, travels and permits of the table being set and secured inany one of its various positions. In this connection it is obvious that the setscrew maybe carried by the end plate and the slot formed in the table to attain the same result. 7

The primary section 6 is provided at each end with a pivoted latch 12, which engages a socket 13 on the secondary section 81 to hold the same in either its open or closed position. Section 7 is provided at its ends with. similar latches, which similarly engage section 9.

14 14 are hinged portions of theend walls of secondary section 8 and are adapted when the box is open, as in Fig. 1, to fold down into the same in an unobstructed position and when the parts are in the position shown in Fig. 2 to assist in closing the ends of the section.

In operation the device may by folding the secondary sections inward upon the primary sections be formed into asmall fiat-top table, as in Fig. 2. Then by looseningthe thumbscrew and turning the table bottom upward the device presents a table consisting of two stepped sections, as in Fig. 3. With all of the sections opened, as in Fig. 1, the device presents four open bins stepped one above another, and by loosening the set-screw and rotating the device on its horizontal axis various forms of display-stands, such as illustrated in Figs. 4 and 5, may be obtained, or the device may be fixed in any intermediate position.

It is to be understood that I do not limit or confine myself to the precise details herein shown and described, as various changes may be made without departing from the limits or scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- 1. In a display device, the combination with a stand or support, of a table mounted therein on a horizontal pivot and adapted to rotate,

said table comprising two primary stepped sections each provided with a pivoted secondary section adapted to swing away from its primary section into a stepped position.

2. In a display device, the combination with a stand or support, of a table mounted therein and comprising two central primary stepped sections attached together and mounted upon a common horizontal pivot on which they are [0 adapted to rotate, each of said sections provided with a pivoted secondary section adapted to swing away from its primary section into a stepped position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in l 5 the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES WRIGHT WIN FIELD. Witnesses:

N. R. MARKER, R. C. BALLARD. 

